When it comes to complexity of network connectors, you have got multiple levels, with a switch (hub) at the bottom and a router at the top. A hub is an astonishingly dumb gadget. It accepts a packet ...

The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

IIRC, a regular hub is one single broadcast domain and all trafic is broadcast to all ports. The difference being in that a switching hub is still one broadcast domain, but only forwards packets to ...